Siva Kaneswaran of The Wanted was worried after suffering a concussion just days before the premiere of Dancing On Ice.
The 34-year-old musician, who will be on the 2023 season of the ITV show alongside Love Island‘s Ekin-Su Culculoglu and The Only Way Is Essex’s Joey Essex, was smacked in the head while practising for his first performance.
Addressing his painful accident after the first episode of the new edition on Sunday, Siwa said: ‘I banged the back of my head. I’ve got a mild concussion as we speak so I’m seeing double a bit.’
‘I literally felt the back of my head, thinking, I’m like, I’m broken, but then once the medics came over and checked on me, they said “You’re all good, it was a minor bump,”’ he continued.
‘I scared myself on the day… but overall, I’m very positive now.’
Doctors have urged Siwa to avoid bright lights and screens for the time being.
Asked how he is feeling ahead of the first performance, Siwa said that he is ‘very confident’ and ‘focused’.
He added: ‘I’m going to do my best, and, when I look back at this, I want to know that I gave 120% and I made my family and friends and everyone proud and myself proud.
‘I think that’s what I’m nervous about – I don’t want to half-ass it, I want to do it.’
Siwa previously stated that he decided to undertake the show after ‘witnessing’ the bravery of his bandmate Tom Parker, who died last year at the age of 33 after being diagnosed with a brain tumour, and to raise awareness of the disease.
The performers will compete to impress judges Christopher Dean, Oti Mabuse, Ashley Banjo, and Jayne Torvill on the competition show, which will be hosted by This Morning presenters Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield.
Dancing On Ice Sunday on ITV.